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December 8, 2010
Championship Showdown
Oregon, Auburn
give BCS title
game new look
(AP) — Change is coming to
the national title game, though it
has nothing to do with any of
those BCS busters you heard
about all season.
S o u th e a ste rn C o n feren c e
champion Auburn and Pac-10
cham p O regon each will be
making their first trip to the BCS
title game, a rarity for the biggest
showdown of the bowl season.
The top-ranked Tigers and
No. 2 Ducks will bring perfect
records and potent offenses to
Glendale, Ariz., for their Jan. 10
matchup.
All the Bowl Championship
Series pairings were made offi­
cial Sunday night, but the cham ­
pionship game announcement
was just a formality after Au­
burn and Oregon completed their
unbeaten runs through regular
season Saturday.
Oregon players gathered with
friends and family in a lounge at
Since the BCS was bom in
1998, its title game has almost
always been stocked with col­
lege football’s blue bloods and
program s with cham pionship
pedigrees.
Auburn has one national title
to its credit — and it came in
just the second, not including the
inaugural BCS championship in
1998, with two teams that have
never been there before. The
other was in 2001, when Ne­
braska and Miami — not exactly
a couple of upstarts — played
for the crystal ball.
Oregon tailback LaMichael Jam es leads the nation in rushing.
Auburn quarterback Cam Newton is the nation’s top-rate passer
and its 15th b est runner.
the athletic complex on campus
to watch as the BCS lineup was
revealed on television. There
wasn't a peep in the room when
Oregon (12-0) popped up on the
screen at No. 2 in the final BCS
standings behind first-place Au­
burn (13-0). It was typical
Ducks: all business.
1957. That's one more than Or­
egon has. In fact, the Ducks are
just the second team in the 13-
year history of the BCS to reach
the championship game looking
for the program’s first national
title. Virginia Tech was the first
in 1999.
Also, this title game will be
Across the country, Auburn
linebacker Craig Stevens had
trouble putting his emotions into
w ords." It's just an amazing feel­
ing," he said. "We've put in all
that hard work to see our dreams
unfold."
The Tigers and Ducks repre­
sent a changing of the guard.
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Another first: Never before
have two teams that started the
season ranked outside the AP
top 10, played for the BCS title.
The Ducks began the year
ranked 11 th in the AP poll, with
questions at quarterback after
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